淘宝无所不能 中国打击网络枪支交易

The rise of ecommerce in China has touched almost every sector of the economy – including an increasingly popular black market for DIY firearms.

中国电子商务的兴起几乎已触及所有的经济领域，包括日益兴旺的自制枪支黑市。

For less than $100 one can buy the parts, tools and instructions to make a shotgun. There have been several arrests this year with police swooping on gangs of online gunrunners.

人们花费不到100美元就能买到制造散弹枪的配件、工具和组装指南。今年以来，警方对网络枪支贩卖者展开了突袭行动，逮捕了多人。

Most recently, two men from Shanxi province were arrested last month for having a small arsenal of guns, firearms parts and ammunition they had bought online on Taobao, the popular Chinese ecommerce website owned by Alibaba, which listed in New York in September in the largest-ever initial public offering and which yesterday released its debut set of results as a listed company.

上月，两名山西男子因持有从淘宝上购买的一些枪支、配件和弹药而被捕。淘宝是阿里巴巴旗下一个颇为红火的购物网站。阿里巴巴今年9月在纽约上市，IPO融资规模创出有史以来的最高水平，日前该公司发布了上市以来的首份财报。

Police said the suspects also used QQ, an online chat app owned by Tencent, another Chinese internet giant, to find clients and give online tutorials.

警方表示，嫌犯们还通过QQ来寻找客户和进行在线指导。QQ是中国另一家互联网巨头腾讯(Tencent)旗下的在线聊天软件。

Online trading in illegal firearms has soared in the past three years, according to Ma Ding, dean of the Institute of Network Security at the People’s Public Security University of China, which trains elite police officers. “The internet has provided a more convenient channel through which buyers and sellers far away can reach each other,” she said. “There is now easier access to the materials and components.”

中国人民公安大学(China People's Public Security University)网络安全保卫学院院长马丁表示，网上的非法枪支交易在过去3年大幅飙升。她表示：“互联网为相距甚远的买家和卖家相互接触提供了更为便利的渠道。现在也更容易获取原材料和配件。”中国人民公安大学是培训精英警官的地方。

However, Ms Ma added the quality of the weapons sold online was generally low. In one recent case, a car mechanic named Zhou was arrested in Jiangsu province for modifying air rifles to shoot bullets. He apparently had a fondness for hunting birds and police described his contraption as capable of “shooting a hole in a beer bottle 6m away”.

然而，马丁补充称，网上出售的武器质量通常比较差。在最近发生在江苏省的一个案件中，一名姓周的汽车修理工因改装出能够打子弹的气枪而被捕。他显然有打鸟的爱好，根据警方的描述，他组装的枪支能够“将6米远的啤酒瓶打出一个洞”。

But some online arms dealers are of a larger scale. In June, a man in Dezhou in Shandong province was arrested for running an online shop on Taobao where he sold an estimated 130 rifles as well as gun parts to buyers in 22 provinces worth more than Rmb40,000. He also published an online video tutorial on how to assemble guns.

但网上一些枪械卖家的规模做得不小。今年6月，山东德州的一名男子因在淘宝上开店出售枪支和弹药而被捕——他向22个省份的买家出售了大约130只步枪以及枪支配件，价值逾4万元人民币。他还在网上发布了如何组装枪支的视频教程。

Alibaba is particularly exposed because virtually all small online sellers in China use Taobao. While Alibaba has strict policies prohibiting weapons sales, it has had problems policing sellers of everything from fake goods to uranium and other materials that can be used to make nuclear bombs.

阿里巴巴深受牵连，因为中国几乎所有的小网店都使用淘宝。虽然阿里巴巴严禁销售武器，但它很难监督卖家销售的从假冒伪劣产品到铀及其他可用来制造核武器的原材料等各种商品。

“Taobao Marketplace is an open, user-generated content platform,” the company said in a statement, “and has stringent product listing policies in place prohibiting the listing of any firearms or weapons; the platform will co-operate with law enforcement authorities to remove problematic product listings promptly.”

阿里巴巴在一份声明中表示：“淘宝是一个开放的、由用户生成内容的平台，拥有严格的产品上架制度，禁止出售任何枪支或武器；淘宝将与执法机关合作，迅速移除问题产品信息。”

In most cases, traders have hidden by selling innocuous sounding parts, which can then be assembled into finished guns. In the Shandong case, “Huo” ran a Taobao shop called Chengxin Qidong, or “Honesty Pneumatic components”.

在大多数情况下，卖家会以出售普通的正当配件打掩护——但这些配件可以被组装为枪支。在山东一案中，“霍某”在淘宝上开了一家名为“信誉气动”的店铺。

“Internet gun traders may be quite discreet, as they divide their shipments and there is nothing suspicious of the parts themselves” said Ms Ma.

马丁表示：“网上的枪支卖家非常谨慎，他们将东西拆分发货，这些配件本身没什么可怀疑的。”

However, she said, police units have begun monitoring forums and online stores advertising certain types of tubing and other parts that can be used in assembling firearms. “The cases are too difficult to crack,” she said.

不过，她表示，警方开始监控某些论坛和网店，因为它们上面有广告推销某些管型材料和其他能够用来组装枪支的零部件。她说：“这些案件很难侦破。”